Richard Stratton is an award-winning writer and filmmaker. His feature film work includes writing and producing SLAM, which won the Grand Jury prize at Sundance and the Camera d'Or at Cannes. For the 25th anniversary of SLAM, the film was digitally remastered and screened on opening weekend at Sundance 2023. Stratton also wrote and produced the feature film Whiteboyz for Fox Searchlight.
His documentary film credits include in 2018 Gotti: Godfather and Son, a four-part series he directed and executive produced for A&E based on his magazine article, Godfather and Son for which he won the New York Press Club award. America's War on Drugs aired on the History channel in 2017. The Execution Machine: Texas Death Row, Thug Life in D.C., which won an Emmy in 1999, and Gladiator Days: Anatomy of a Prison Murder; all produced for the America Undercover series on HBO. He produced the documentary, Crude which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2009 and has won numerous awards around the world including the Peace Prize at the Berlin Film festival in 2010.
Stratton was the creator, executive producer and showrunner of the dramatic TV series Street Time, which aired on Showtime. He wrote and directed The Whole Truth, the Season Two finale of Street Time.
His fiction and journalism have appeared in numerous magazines including GQ, Esquire, Details, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, Spin, Playboy and Story Magazine. He has written several books including Altered States of America: Outlaws and Icons, Hitmakers and
Hitmen. Smuggler's Blues: A True Story of the Hippie Mafia, published in 2016, and Kingpin: Prisoner of The War on Drugs published in 2017. In February, 2020 the third volume of the trilogy, In The World: From The Big House to Hollywood was released. That was followed by DEFENDING ALICE, a novel of love and race in the roaring Twenties, published worldwide by Harper Collins on November 22, 2022.
Stratton has appeared as an actor in Wall Street 2:Money Never Sleeps and other films. He lives in New York with his wife Antoinette, and is the father of five children.
Gotti: Godfather and Son(2018)
Street Time(2002)
Whiteboyz(1999)
Slam(1998)
Early Light(2014)as Correctional Counselor
The Perfect Murder(2014)as Hal Ross
River of Fundament(2014)as Wake Guest
I Married a Mobster(2011)as Mob Expert, Mob expert
Dirty Old Town(2012)as Lawyer
Crude(2009)
Gladiator Days: Anatomy of a Prison Murder(2002)
Thug Life in D.C.(1998)
The Execution Machine: Texas Death Row(1997)
Oz(1997)
Prisoners of the War on Drugs(1996)
America's War on Drugs(2017)as Self - Expert
Norman Mailer: The American(2010)as Self
The Naked Queen(2007)as Self
The Drug Years(2006)as Self
